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Water Run Through

from Richer Soil by Derek Nelson

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Newborn baby opens her eyelids in the nursery
Momma couldn’t decide on a name until day three
Dad was in the city
It was busy season at the job.

She went off to school, got turned around
As kids are prone to do.
Papers said “untapped potential,”
“Not good with rules.”
She said, “doesn’t anybody here
Wonder what happens outside these walls?”
She started singing:

“I am not distant
I am not aloof
I am not disconnected
No, I am part of you.
I’m not the exception
I am the rule
I won’t pass your inspection
But I’m newer than new
I’m the water run through.”

She said, “I think I have some paintings
I’d think I’d like the world to see,
But I don’t feel like sharing
every step of my odyssey.
I’d like to go somewhere
If I had the currency
That everyone else seems to
Every else does.”

“I pay these people compliments
And they just wonder the cost
But all their bitter ironies
Get lined up and bought.
I’ve been unalone, but unafraid
but unsupported for one too many days.
That’s why I’m singing…”

“I am not distant
I am not aloof
I am not disconnected
No, I am part of you.
I’m not the exception
I am the rule
I won’t pass your inspection
But I’m newer than new
I’m the water run through.”

Walking down Division as the woman who she would become
Hair had grown shorter, grown darker
Since she was on the run
I guess she’s still running
they’re all just so far behind now.

She said, “ain’t it funny,
All the things I was so ashamed about
Now are all the parts of me I wouldn’t live without”
When I see kids playing in the lawn
Now, I’ll sing my parents song
It goes like this,

“You’re doing it wrong.
You’re doing it wrong.
I was once young like you
I got dirt on me, too.
Just let the water run through.”

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from Richer Soil, released October 10, 2019

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